Search Results for: "20 years later"

April 7, 2019

On Monday, April 7, 2014, Milwaukee Record became a thing. Following months of planning, fretting, and drinking at the BBC for some reason (R.I.P.), former A.V. Club Milwaukee city editor Matt Wild and former A...

MKE Music Rewind: Competitorr, “Stop Go”

April 4, 2019

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. I moved to Milwaukee in the fall of 1996, but sometimes it feels lik...

Welcome to April: Here’s what you’re doing this month

April 1, 2019

April is typically a period of rebirth. Baseball season is back, the first full month of spring is upon us, and rampant festival announcements combine with extended daylight and occasional days of unseasonable ...

Milwaukee Fools: 5 Milwaukee-related goofs, pranks, and hoaxes

April 1, 2019

Don't you just love April Fools' Day? Don't you just love when every publication on planet Earth suddenly thinks they're The Onion and pens some rib-tickling "satire"? Yeah, ugh. Anyway, here are a few amusing ...

Milwaukee Record Recommended (April 1-7)

April 1, 2019

Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee events calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here are our recommendati...

7 Kwik Trip impersonators in metro Milwaukee

March 27, 2019

Last summer, we took a drive to Dubuque to visit a Kwik Star, a bizarro version of Kwik Trip that only exists in the state of Iowa. It turns out that in order to avoid consumer confusion and, more importantly, ...

Under the cover of darkness, we snapped these pictures of the former, currently gutted BBC

March 26, 2019

If you've walked by the old G-Daddy's BBC on the East Side lately, you know that the once-mighty sports bar is a shell of its former self. Literally: The building is currently boarded up and completely gutted, ...

Calliope says farewell (for now), morphs into cosmic Astral Hand

March 25, 2019

Type "Milwaukee psych-stoner-biker-band" into the search engine of your choice and you'll land on Calliope. Beginning with a bluesy self-titled album in 2013 and culminating with the thunderous Chapel Perilous ...

Everyone’s mad about that National Avenue food truck ban and there’s gonna be a rally tonight

March 22, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...

18 shows to get excited about this spring

March 20, 2019

Spring, sprung. Winter waning, summer looming. Life. Hope. Shows. You know the drill. Here are 18 exciting shows coming to Milwaukee this spring. Wednesday, March 20 Milwaukee Record Presents: Billy Madison...

A bandwagon fan’s guide to Marquette men’s basketball

Kevin Mueller

March 19, 2019

The state of basketball in Milwaukee is strong. The Bucks are projected to win the most games in the NBA, and it’s on the back of one of the most exciting players in a decade. The Mike Budenholzer era is off an...

Celebrate our 5,000th post with Alice Cooper saying “Mill-e-wah-que” 5,000 times

March 18, 2019

Hey! This post—yes, this post right here—is the 5,000th post to grace the digital pages of Milwaukee Record! How about that! We announced our impending arrival exactly five years ago today; one month later, on ...

First Impression: Pizza Pete’s (Cudahy)

Andrew Sawicki

March 14, 2019

On our various sojourns to our friendly neighbor to the south, Cudahy, we're always keen to explore the dining options on offer. We're especially interested in the many strip mall eateries—those clearly niche j...

“We’ve Got It!” 10 videos from the ’80s heyday of Northridge Mall

March 12, 2019

UPDATE (4/11/19): Well, it looks like they might knock the whole thing down. Maybe. In the ever-expanding world of dead Milwaukee malls, Northridge Mall reigns supreme. The 800,000 square-foot behemoth has s...

Dollars For Donuts: Canfora Bakery

March 10, 2019

Milwaukee loves donuts. Dozens of bakeries in the city and its surrounding suburbs help people get a sweet start to their day with long johns, crullers, jellies, powdered, cream-filled, cake donuts, and more. I...

John Kuhn and 5 more players who signed one-day contracts to “retire as a Packer”

March 8, 2019

Yesterday, more than a year after playing his last down in the NFL, fullback John Kuhn officially called it a career. Though his time in Green Bay ended when the Packers opted not to re-sign the veteran after t...

The world’s best list of 25 not-that-interesting facts about Milwaukee

Josh Hoppert

March 7, 2019

broadstreet.zone(68249); The "25 Facts" series features people, places, and stuff that make Milwaukee great. These articles are meant just for fun and we have nothing but love for everyone included. Brought to...

Dollars For Donuts: Honeydip Donuts